Thank you to Mr. Willadsen for leading a great bird-watching adventure to the Star River Walk. Students enjoyed trying to find and identify birds. They learned the importance of knowing bird calls, as the foilage was thick near the river! We heard more birds than we saw.

We have American Kestrel chicks in our nest box in the front parking lot! This is our third year hosting a nesting pair. You can often see the parents bringing field mice to feed the chicks. There were 6 eggs. It's hard to tell from the photos whether we have 5 little chicks or if a 6th might be snuggled under the group.

Students played a migration game with Mr. Willadsen this week. They learned about the obstacles standing in the way of migratory birds in both the fall and spring. It was a wonderful tie-in to a whale story we'd been studying because the students gained a deeper understanding of the word migratory. Thank you for providing the fun and academic context!